Communication without common interest: A signaling experiment

Hannah Rubin; Justin P. Bruner; Cailin O'Connor; Simon Huttegger

doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101295

Communication without common interest: A signaling experiment

Hannah Rubin, Justin P. Bruner, Cailin O'Connor, Simon Huttegger

Political Economy & Moral Science

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Communication can arise when the interests of speaker and listener diverge if the cost of signaling is high enough that it aligns their interests. But what happens when the cost of signaling is not sufficient to align their interests? Using methods from experimental economics, we test whether theoretical predictions of a partially informative system of communication are borne out. As our results indicate, partial communication can occur even when interests do not coincide.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	101295
Journal	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume	83
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101295
State	Published - Oct 2020

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